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RED HORNED OWL. 



Strix Asio. S. capite aurito, corpore supra ferrugineo, subtm 

 cinereo, alis punctis quinque albis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Horned Owl with the body ferruginous above, cinereous 

 beneath, and five white spots on the wings. 



Scops Caroliniensis. Briss. ois. 



Little Owl. Catesb. Carol. I. pi. 7. 



Red Eared Owl. Penn. Arct. Zool, Lath, syn. 



Native of North America, and thus described 

 by Mr. Pennant in his Arctic Zoology. " Owl 

 with yellow irides : horns, head, back, and wings, 

 of a pleasant tawny red, streaked with black : the 

 scapulars marked with large white spots : primaries 

 barred with black, red, and white: breast pale 

 tawny, marked with oblong black spots : tail red, 

 barred with dusky : feet covered with feathers to 

 the claws : length ten inches and a half: inhabits 

 New York, and as low as the Carolinas : lives in 

 the woods near the coast." The female is said to 

 differ in being brown instead of ferruginous. 



